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Savings and index fund investing. I have an automatic bank transfer to my broker account every month and then I'm using Interactive Brokers API in a script that buys global equitie…

I can't give just one, but here are a few that had a strong influence on me: "12 Rules for Life" by Jordan Peterson, "Why Switzerland?" Jonathan Steinberg, "Little Book of Common S…

One of the best blogs on learning and life wisdom.

Here's a good read on that subject: http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/spain.htm

Open a cheap investment account (e.g. Interactive Brokers) and invest in cheap ETFs (e.g. Vanguard Total World Stock and/or Vanguard Total Bond Market - in proportions 70%/30%) unt…

Central banks have similar bug with government money.

Except for Switzerland, Western (not to speak about Eastern) Europe's universal healthcare means universal high taxes, universal low quality of treatment and universal access to wa…

Most Palestinians and anti-government Jews in Israel wouldn't agree. Maybe Kurdistan will be the first country in which political elites (backed by populist voting majority) treat …

But non of them is financed voluntary and non of them was created in voluntary association.

Maybe in your country. In mine liberal still means liberal.

What's so ironic in that? This was the agenda of the liberals since the Scottish Enlightenment.

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"I'm wondering which other books have you read that have had the most impact on you professionally or even personally?" Professionally: Peter F. Drucker's books. Personally: "Medit…

Classic paper of a brilliant economist.

Exactly: http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2014/Jasaypython.htm...

There was a Polish composer, writer and politician Stefan Kisielewski who used to say: "Socialism is a system which bravely fights problems that are not known in any other system".…

Well, they were elected by a majority who doesn't believe in science. That's why it's strange that most of the people who believe in majority rule are surprised when democratic ele…

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Most libertarians/classical liberals believe in that concept. It used to be like that in the middle ages, especially in Germany and Italy. Look for instance these two articles: htt…

It's not a "natural law", but pretty close to it. It's a social convention (behavioral equilibrium) that guarantees peace and cooperation. The greatest philosopher of property righ…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...

"support for the disastrous privatization of the economies of the Post-Soviet states that's lead to massive human suffering" Lack of privatization in Post-Soviet states lead to mas…

Thank you globalization.

Nonsense, the entire era of Industrial Revolution happened during authoritarian governments. Not to mention the economic success of Hong Kong or Chile. PS. Yes, there was huge shor…